Cathy had not even noticed that she
herself was wet and trailing water everywhere. The room was papered with green, large-patterned
paper that was at worst a trifle dingy, and the arm-chair and the seats of the other
chairs were covered with the unusual brightness of a large-patterned chintz,
which also supplied the window-curtain. Surely she could ignore him. "Gracious Heaven!" exclaimed the knight, upon whom a light seemed suddenly
to break. ‘You kissed me that you might make me find it
for you instead?’
‘I had no such intention. Telling the porter
that he would attend to the house himself, he bade him go in search of Jack
Sheppard. good, miss. All
the world about her seemed to be—how can one put it?—in wrappers, like a
house when people leave it in the summer. I have
been thinking—I will go to my wife again. "Oh God! how fearfully my father is avenged!"
"True," replied Jack, sternly; "but we have our uncle to avenge. "Your uncle, Sir
Rowland?"
"It is no idle boasting," replied the other. And in these crowded four weeks,
what had she learned? That all horizons were lies: that smiles and handshakes
and goodbyes and welcomes were lies: that there were really no to-morrows,
only a treadmill of to-days: and that out of these lies and mirages she had
plucked a bitter truth—she was alone.
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